Today, thanks to Susan taking several thousand dollars out of the 401K, I paid off my KHESLC student loan and my $2,775 hospital bill from last November's dehydration and kidney trauma. So, that's gonna save me about $350 monthly. Nice!

Also today, I saw posts that Austin Roy has sent to Hannah, and I am completely ready to stomp his ass.

After owning Scrivener 19 for years, I finally read through and understood the tutorial and can see it's a very worthwhile and reasonably priced software tool for authors. I may actually try using it for a book production. It's memory footprint on Windows 10 is about 59 Mb.

Thanksgiving 2019 pictures...

Happy Thanksgiving!

I posted this on FB this morning:

Today I went to church alone. Susan, Hannah, and Grant went to Lexington to see Emma at the University of Kentucky. I had lunch with Matthew, Laura, and Mamaw — chili and grilled cheese. Snacked some this afternoon while re-watching a sci-fi movie, Children of Men, then ran six miles before dark.

I also installed SkyFonts this afternoon. I'm using the Segoe UI font for this post. Fallback fonts are Georgia, then Tahoma.

I'm thinking about getting some sort of firm mattress for the Wayfair couch in our den, the piece of furniture that has become my mainstay. It's not terribly comfortable, in my estimation due to mediocre quality. I'm thinking about ordering a cushion, but I suppose I'd best check with the boss lady first.

This morning I cuddled with Susan, then we got up about 6:30 am at Lilly's insistence. I had coffee, a banana, and a mini-honeybun.

I welcomed several new members to my "Apps, Proofreading, Websites" Facebook group, and also did a nice Featured Author post starring Lisa R. Hall's novels Girl Found and Wendy. Already proofreading related, I got a "Thanks, man!" from J. N. Chaney for purchasing his tetralogy that begins with The Amber Project. Doesn't hurt to tip the hat to the man who has, so far, paid me $700 to proofread novels to prep them for publishing under his branding.

This morning I cuddled with Susan, then we got up about 6:30 am at Lilly's insistence. I had coffee, a banana, and a mini-honeybun.

I welcomed several new members to my "Apps, Proofreading, Websites" Facebook group, and also did a nice Featured Author post starring Lisa R. Hall's novels Girl Found and Wendy. Already proofreading related, I got a "Thanks, man!" from J. N. Chaney for purchasing his tetralogy that begins with The Amber Project. Doesn't hurt to tip the hat to the man who has, so far, paid me $700 to proofread novels to prep them for publishing under his branding.

Here's a photo of dad, Paul Bertram Miller, taken in September of 1997. He was 60 years old at this time:

Our new TR enrollment is 15. Hopefully this will aid us in meeting our direct-time requirement.

Hopefully, if the weather doesn't change, I'll be jogging this afternoon. It's supposed to be overcast but 60 °F. It's been three weeks, today, since I last jogged. I got that UTI, then I was covered up for several days with a pair of lucrative proofreading jobs. So, just an easy pace to burn calories.

Then this evening, while Susan sits with her dad, I need to discipline myself to practice my lines for the Christmas skit.

I've updated the name and site pic of my Facebook group. It's now "Apps, Proofreading, Websites" at the following URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AppsProofreadingWebsites. I went to fiverr and re-downloaded the voiceover video advert I had made months ago, and uploaded that video to my little corner of FB and LinkedIn. I also put it on my website homepage, along with a bold link beneath it on the homepage redirecting visitors to my FB Group page.

I closed a client from TR today. Our new enrollment is 15. Hopefully this will aid us in meeting our direct-time requirement.

Hopefully, if the weather doesn't change, I'll be jogging this afternoon. It's supposed to be overcast but 60 °F. It's been three weeks, today, since I last jogged. I got that UTI, then I was covered up for several days with a pair of lucrative proofreading jobs. So, just an easy pace to burn calories.

In this picture, Bobo (Paula Miller) and two of my nieces, Katie and Lauren, are stopping for a snack on the way home from Toledo, Ohio, after Mikayla's (my oldest niece) wedding. 2016? 2017?

Then this evening, while Susan sits with her dad, I need to discipline myself to practice my lines for the Christmas skit.

I've updated the name and site pic of my Facebook group. It's now "Apps, Proofreading, Websites" at the following URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AppsProofreadingWebsites. I went to fiverr and re-downloaded the voiceover video advert I had made months ago, and uploaded that video to my little corner of FB and LinkedIn. I also put it on my website homepage, along with a bold link beneath it on the homepage redirecting visitors to my FB Group page.

Slept from 4am to 9:30 am, after we got home from rescuing H.

This is my father, Paul Betram Miller, at age 22 in 1959 while in Memphis, Tennessee in the Navy.

Well, it's 4:09 pm. I've received the HDD enclosure and puzzles for clients that I ordered from Amazon. I've installed a 750 GB 3.5" drive, twiddled it with Partition Wizard, and now have it attached to my HP computer. I'm currently copying Macrium Reflect backups for three separate PCs to it. I've also copied blog images and my Proofy proofreading app files to it, as well as a large directory of work-related files and subdirectories.

We have play practice in less than an hour. Not really a play. More like a series of skits and monologues that tell the Christmas story. Mom wanted to go eat Mexican; I told her Tues/Wed/Friday would be possibilities.

The foregoing photo was made in the early 1950s and shows my paternal grandparents on the bottom row and — left to right (from camera perspective), my paternal uncle and my father.

Also, this afternoon, I replaced the batteries in my wireless mouse and keyboard connected to my ThinkCenter PC.

I emailed C. E. Wade, i.e. "Chuck", a former trooper turned security-consultant whom mother met during her last gal-pal trek cross-country. He'd told her he wanted to publish a book, and she informed him one of her sons did proofreading work. We'll see if I get a nibble.

This morning, I need to finish the last 12K words in Blackout Rogue then submit to Jennifer See for conveyance to the author. She and I had a FB Messenger discussion about the novel last night.

Later, when it warms to a bearable 40+°F, I'll go to Bobo's and clean her geothermal filter and visit a bit.